Patents by Inventor Ricardo Gandia

Ricardo Gandia has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Avoiding deadlock between storage assignments by devices in a network
    Patent number: 7010657
    Abstract: A method of avoiding deadlock during managing storage of items in a network (102) of heterogeneous storage devices (104,106,108). The method firstly detects (402) a storage event. Detection is effected by the local storage device and then the method obtains input information (404) having parameter values related to the item and the heterogeneous storage devices (104,106,108). The method then processes (406) the input information to determine a storage assignment, for storage of the item on one or more of the heterogeneous storage devices (104,106,108). The assignment is based on item-device suitability determined from a combination of at least one item selection rule and rules preventing deadlock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Darryn Lowe, Ricardo Gandia, Geetha Varuni Witana
  • Managing storage of items across a network of heterogeneous storage devices
    Publication number: 20050021915
    Abstract: A method of managing storage of at least one item in a network (102) of heterogeneous storage devices (104,106,108), the heterogeneous storage devices are a local storage device and remote storage devices. The method firstly detects (402) a storage event. Detection is effected by the local storage device and then the method obtains input information (404) having parameter values related to the item and the heterogeneous storage devices (104,106,108). The method then processes (406) the input information to determine a storage assignment, for storage of the item on one or more of the heterogeneous storage devices (104,106,108). The assignment is based on item-device suitability determined from a combination of at least one item selection rule and at least one storage selection rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Darryn Lowe, Ricardo Gandia, Geetha Witana
  • Method and system for evaluating the suitability of metadata
    Publication number: 20040267693
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system (113) for evaluating the suitability of metadata for an item, which is to be archived in a computer readable memory (101). The metadata values annotated to the item are evaluated and a suitability indication (501,503,505) is provided to a user. The suitability indication is provided based on the comparison of actual number of occurrences of the annotated metadata values in the computer readable memory and the number of occurrences desired by the user. The desired number of occurrences is determined on the basis of past searching habits of the user. The suitability indication comprises an individual suitability (501), a union suitability (503) and a combined suitability (505).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Darryn Lowe, Ricardo Gandia